Research Interests： Ocean mesoscale dynamics: Coherent structures and their role in setting transport and mixing properties of passive (for example floats) and active (i.e plankton) tracers. Vertical mixing at the mesoscales. Climate variability and the role of the oceans at interannual and decadal scales Awards： AMS Nicholas Fofonoff Award, 2011 NSF Student and Young Scientist Award Grant, 2001 Postdoctoral Scholar Award at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 2000